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Telegraph Road was spawned by Mark taking a bus ride down the road of that name in Michigan. It's a song about civilization spawning from nothing and some think it's about boom and bust America in general. Great reaction friends.
An absolutely phenomenal record. A moment, a period of time, a set of musicians brought together…never, ever to be repeated. Those musicians in Dire Straits are the epitome of professional. Musicians that know their instruments, know about composition, musicians so intertwined with each other they know what each other is going to do and when. And when that happens you have a serious weapon.
One of the (few) benefits of age is the pleasure of watching young folk discover something that has been part of my life since the day it happened. Not too long ago it would have been fashionable to sneer at or deride anything 'old' (i.e. from a time before they were born). Now, thanks to RU-vid and fine reactors like yourselves I can enjoy the excitement and, most importantly, respect shown to these performances from an age that seems only five minutes ago to me. Thank you.
Worth noting that this was the encore of the concert. The band had already been playing for nearly two hours before they pulled off this epic. What a group of musicians.
Please add the live version of Dire Straits "Private Investigation" to your viewing list from On the Night 1993. It is another different epic of building an atmosphere and a story.
The whole thing is always a matter of taste at DS: musically diverse, sophisticated arrangement or “young” energy and spontaneity. One time it's good, another time it's too good (to put it politely). Have fun with all kinds of good music.
It does my heart so much good to watch people enjoying music I've known and listened to for best part of 40 years. Always going back to listen to the Alchemy gig. And I can't see birds sitting on electricity wires without thinking of Mark's line, "all the birds up on the wires and up on the poles, they can always fly away from this rain and this cold." Apparently Mark Knopfler insisted that the show was recorded in the absolute best quality possible at the time so it would be pretty future proof. What an inspired decision that was because as you mention it's still stunning today.
So glad you guys have found Dire Straits 80s stuff. This is the sound of so many British people's youth from the era. It's musically and lyrically so sophisticated and that's what audiences wanted and appreciated back then. You must check out the many suggestions
Yes, this is live, musicians of the highest level are capable of such performances. All members of the band are professionals of the highest level, it just couldn't be better. A masterpiece.
Mark has this expression of complete effortlessness which to me makes him so attractive 😅. Adore this song. Romeo and Juliet is my favourite Dire Straits song it is beautiful ❤
"They're too good to be in the same band". I almost concur....that statement is a high compliment to the band though. What makes a decent band great is their creative, vocal and musical talent.... as well as the countless hours, day's, week's, months, years, and even decades of practice time together they put in. This kind of band is in it for more than just the fame and money. Its their unified desire and dream to perform to an audience and bring...them.... to their...knees! There is no short cuts. What a musical era we once had!
Great reaction ,I crossed paths with Mark Knopfler many moons ago. Yes it's nice when music in this genre has space to expand and improvise within the structure that's why live music is an outlet vehicle for expansion when the music is often set, because it sits in the popular category.
This performance was at the end of a 2-hour show. Another one from the show is "Once Upon A Time In The West" that really shows Mark's talent. Best album ever made.
@@paulboag5555 I recently bought the DVD of the Alchemy concert and it is sooo good. Also got On The Night concert but wont play on my player. Need to get PAL converter in order to watch it.
Always loved this performance. Also Private Investigations, Brothers In Arms and Calling Elvis from DIRE STRAITS- Live " On The Night" 1993 are just three more of my favorites. They're awesome. Nice reaction and channel. Cheers from Australia 👍🎸🎸🎸
If I could click many more likes on those suggestions I would! That performance of Brothers in Arms has so much feeling, and sound production is better than the Mandela concert IMHO.
'Tunnel of Love' has to be you next one then! You are gradually prepping yourselves for 'Close to the Edge' by Yes, though you don't realise it yet! Can you imagine us kids hearing bands like this for the first time when we were growing up? Surrounded, week by week, by fabulous music played by brilliant musicians. And you are so right Jess - they don't make it like this anymore! Thanks for sharing!
Remember before the internet as a kid where you couldn't afford anything and so you had to wait for your favourite songs to come on the radio or TV? Now you can just go on RU-vid and listen to everything for free....
You really must listen to them playing, in concert, the tune ‘Going Home’ from the film ‘Local Hero’. The way Mark plays the guitar brings such depth of feeling to it and it’s from their more recent years, showing that they can still hold an audience.
Romeo and Juliet and Tunnel of Love from their best album imo,Making Movies next please. One of those bands who were actually better live than studio. Another great British band.
They were so good at story telling. "Brothers in Arms" is worth seeking out. Always reminds me of my father and guaranteed to bring a tear to my eye. Glad you enjoyed it.
All the bands in the 70s and 80s gave me the soundtracks to my life I was 30 in 1983. So nice to see you appreciate those bands. Your parents were part of my generation
He was born in Glasgow to a Geordie mother, a teacher, and a Hungarian father, an architect. He was raised in the North East of England. Mark is a musician, singer/songwriter, and record producer. He has composed and produced film scores for nine movies. Mark still works today.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone make a guitar SING the way Mark Knopfler can. The expression he wrings out of it is unparalleled, even within a single note. Yet he looks so laid back and relaxed. An absolute master of his instrument. Alan Clark's keyboards are brilliant too. Classically trained pianist and it shows. Another of their beautiful marriages of piano and guitar is Private Investigations - and in particular the Wembley 1985 version, which is the best version I've ever heard them do of it. Just stunning.
@@dracula5487 of course, and I love him! (I was born at the end of '59 so I was lucky enough to have grown up listening to some of the best), and they all have their unique sounds and brilliance. 🙂
Telegraph Road is a major north-south 70-mile (110 km) thoroughfare in Michigan, and Mark Knopfler was inspired to write the song while riding in the front of the tour bus, which made the journey down Telegraph Road.
Awesome performance, we don't listen to Dire Straits, we experience it. Brothers in Arms remains my all time favourite (makes my eyes leak every time).
This isn't simply a musical performance it is a complex narrative, a musical conversation between each of the musical instruments involved in that performance
I was in a pub in Scotland in the seventies when they hit the ground running with Sultans !! If there is or ever has been a live concert/album that comes anywhere near this, then I've yet to hear it ! I'm now 77 years of age, and I think Mark is around 73 and still playing ! He is a rock legend as are his band, and this line up was the benchmark ! I still have a Strat and a Telecaster, both original American versions, which I still play most days but oh to be able to emulate just one percent of the talent on show here tonight. Thanks for reacting to and appreciating the likes of what we will never see again. ps. the recording is still available to buy on CD. ?
You young man, are spot on - we have been lucky to see/hear a lot of many talented groups in our lifetime (I'm 64 and have loved every year of my life through music). Prog rock era for me (going to see a Genesis tribute band next month in Manchester play Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) but, I do appreciate newish indie bands - mainly US bands - Future Islands, The War on Drugs & Manchester Orchestra. From the UK, I also have a soft spot for Sam Fender - think he is a future phenomenon.
Thank you so much for reacting to Telegraph Road. Dire Straits have been my favourite band since I was a kid. I woke up one Saturday morning to my dad playing Telegraph Road on vinyl. He blared it throughout the house. It was 1985 and I was 5 years old, and from that moment on, I have been a huge fan of Dire Straits, and in awe of Mark Knopfler's song writing and musical talent. Telegraph Road is, in my opinion, a musical masterpiece. Every single person on the stage that night performed phenomenally. The piano was sublime, Terry Williams absolutely destroyed that drum kit, and Mark made that guitar answer him back on every possible occasion. I hope you continue your Dire Straits journey. I've been following and subscribed to you guys now for a couple of months and I'm loving your channel so much. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. Keep up the great work, and much love from across the pond ♥
Everyone in their life needs to experience this, it's epic, 'probably' the best live performance you will ever see! What a tune! I have heard this a thousand times and it never gets repetitive, thank you Dire Straits, thank you!
Dire Straits came to Darwin Australia in the late 80's on a world tour and held the concert at an out doors venue and was absolutley amazing and they didn't even stop when a tropical rain storm blew in, I bought their first album "Sultans of swing" when I was 19 years old and played the hell out of it, and still do.
I commented a few days ago but, I'd just like to add if I may: 1. The deliberate opening sounds evoking the near- pristine American wilderness 2. The sheer poetry of Mark's lyrics! 3 The power of the metaphor - the road, and Detroit, as metaphor for how modern capitalism can leave whole communities "high & dry", and that's long before 2008 4 The deliberate 'imitation' of a distinctly U.S guitar sound. 5 The duetting of guitar and piano. 6 Terry Williams drum work! It is truly a masterpiece and in some ways, 'peak' rock.
There are not enough superlatives to describe Dire Straits, especially this Alchemy live concert. It is perfection from start to finish. If you don't feel emotion with this performance, you have no emotions. One last thing, a line toward the end of the song makes more and more sense as time goes on . the line is "I ran every red light on memory lane."
Rest assured you were reacting... And in the best way - you'd totally fallen into the story of that song! So much of the truly legendary music of this era was taking flight in the music and landing ~15mins later, not quite realising just where you'd been taken too. Your faces at the end was wonderful; you were SO captivated!
Story telling was a big part of what singer-songwriters were about in their heyday. Not saying there aren't singer songwriters around today, but the number of them then and the quality of their material was astounding.
I have seen Telegraph Road several times on YT, and thoroughly enjoyed every presentation, but yours was by far the best, visually - we saw you two in the bottom corners doing your great reaction and then in the background, on full screen, was the band with a classical performance of a superb track. As a couple you are my favourite presenters on YT. Cheers, Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Definitivamente, bienvenidos al maravilloso mundo de Dire Straits❤ Definitely, welcome to wonderful Dire Straits' World. Greetings from Mallorca, Spain!
Please make this old English bloke a happy, happy man and react to Brothers in arms live a Wembley. Mike will be able to see Mark incredible finger work close up as the camera lingers on his hands and Jess will get very emeotional with the lyrics. Thanks for reacting to the music you two beautiful people. Love to both.
Mark has said that he wanted the whole concert filmed on just one night,not pieced together over a few nights. Isn't it a glorious thing that they realised they had to film it & wasn't the camerawork outstanding? You guys got it spot on❤
I was in the crowd, there were only 2000 there, I will never forget that night and how the fans erupted during Sultans when they sang "way down south in London Town"¬!
Thanks for saying that this gig was before you were born! Thanks because I was there! And now I feel old😄😄 I was 18, I'm 59 now, hair gone but this gig was awesome. We were on the balcony, just behind the people you could see clapping We were blown away, the whole band were the best of the best of the day. Alan Clark's keys are exemplary Terry Williams drumming, the best, he always played like that, possibly the best live I've seen, and I've seen Phil Collins, Chester Thompson, Mark Brzezicki, Charlie Watts.... So glad you enjoyed it I'm even more glad the best tech of the day was used to record this gig We didn't think they'd play "Telegraph" live, its too complicated, they killed it with Sultans, we were satisfied, then, the last song, they played Telegraph Road, unbelievable and they killed it! The encore was Solid Rock Great days So glad you enjoyed it
Funny you mentioned movie, do you know his score? "Wild Theme" from the movie Local Hero (Burt Lancaster), put it on the list, this and "Going Home" were played at the end of the concerts. Other films include "Wag the Dog" with Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman, "Princess Bride", "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and more
It's weird but I love watching John Illsley in this concert - bounding around the stage with those long legs and his chiselled face. I just find it hypnotic. I missed the chance to see John in concert a few years ago and I really wish I'd gone. I have seen Mark Knopfler twice. It's amazing to be in the presence of genius. I see you've now done ELO, you're doing a tour of my favourites. All that's missing is my favourite DS song, which is 'Tunnel of Love', and Elton John doing 'Funeral For A Friend' at Madison Square Garden.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I was at the concert at Hammersmith Odeon back in July, 1983 (now called the Apollo - where a lot of British Comedians now appear) - it was a great atmosphere then, and it doesn't get lost in the videos now. Love it - dig out some more!!! Check out Brothers in Arms - LIVE at Wembley 1988 - I think You'll enjoy.
I had the privilege to see Dire Straits live at the Birmingham NEC, UK, maybe 87/88 when I was about 13/14. I only knew "Money For Nothing". Came away in awe...
Incredible live performance by incredible musicians of a track Mark wrote while travelling in their tour bus down Telegraph Road in Michigan. Another fantastic live concert was 'On the Night' that included tracks 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Private Investigations'...The list is endless and the quality timeless!
These chaps are so good I doubt they actually have to think about the actual playing. They are way off on at trip together and simply know the fingers will do what is necessary. Knofler once said it not that difficult !! I'll take his word for it.
Kind of always amazes me that people only comment on Mark Knopfler. Yes he is one if not the best guitarist ever, ( from Scotland but grew up where I am from and actually got to jam with him in a local pub a long time ago), but the reason Dire Staits were so good and have gone down in music history is because every single member of the band were outstanding. One person does not make a team, a band or anything else.
